transit routes. you'll best way to the heart of moscow. live pictures from ukraine as scuffles break out in southeast green's crimea between supporters and opponents of the country's interim leadership as rival crowds receives the local parliament while in the capital. this is just the beginning ukraine's resurrection europe's resurrection the you will be started over my done for you walter nationalists move closer to power seeking key posts in a new government to be approved or rejected by chaotic crowds in a public forum on the embattled in the pan square. yeah and then just leave these members of the public to be harassed part of fury of patrols far right vigilantes in armored vehicles patrol the streets of muslim neighborhood in east london sparking fears of a clash between communities. and an inquiry into

the work of the troika of international lenders to struggling eurozone states shows deep flaws in the system as a european parliament admits the bailout hasn't gone to plan. six pm in moscow are you watching our tina national with me marina josh welcome to the program well the uprising in ukraine has brought months of chaos to the capital but now it's the country south where tensions are the highest well more than ten thousand people have surrounded the parliament building in crimea's main city right now you're looking at live pictures from the town of sin for all which is a capital of crimea where two rival factions are rallying for and against the new leadership in the capital kiev scuffles have broken out leaving several people

injured earlier protestors attempted to storm the building were local lawmakers are deciding on whether the region should break away from ukraine our correspondent. it's in that particular part of the country has more. potential as you can see and feel. fine right now got completely. new ground in just one place now in the meantime in another city here in the crimea around sixty miles away in the city of sevastopol which is also ukraine second or just seaport pro russian protests have been taking place there as well for the past few days including today and put in front of the local administration building in the past few days the biggest protest gathered tens of thousands of people they've also elected a new mayor who is known for his pro russian views and has promised to protect the city i guess the old nationalist russian support for the representatives of the

right wing are currently coming to power in here would seem a small group of foreign nationals here as well. now you can see it actually was moving really quickly like i said both sides are now forcing was it was raining shots are right and russian somewhere else. what a tense situation. meanwhile in the capital the interim leadership is finalizing a list of new cabinet ministers and it will have to be approved in a few hours time by crowds in independence square and was right wing radicals at the forefront of uprising there are now lining up for the top jobs are asking for its. course now. we leave ukraine and europe's biggest battle you know vibrantly that it's clear the right sector movement of the great states its mission over and well something that the revolution here ended with the ousting

of president jiang the college its leader dimitri jarosz has a different view. to fortune which this is just the beginning you preens resurrection europe's resurrection they started our my down. but does this resurrection require the storming of political party offices the torching of politicians houses and the manhunt for journalists from the new government at this recently the offer of your award for the whereabouts of a russian journalist from the r.t.r. channel you for what they call providing false information so you can see where we are heading now so that the jewish community in southeastern ukraine thought we had returned but on tuesday and identified the man tried to set the town synagogue ablaze with molotov cocktails the police leach before masked men started throwing explosives at our synagogue and around eleven pm our security tried to catch the

perpetrators but they failed to follow. the right sector is the core and the voice of the uprising but the extent of its involvement in the acts of vandalism and violence walking in ukraine now is hard to verify the attacks are often but a traitor if i am going to fight masked men finding who exactly they represent is difficult the word on the street is that there are several on factions operating under the my gun ban are now raising serious concerns about the rise of its. just as the symbols of the tragic past resurface on the great streets we witness right now. a very hypocritical approach to public it's especially by the european union and by the european states they say they fight against extremists inside the european union they fund extremists and support extremists and also i think the opinion. described is widely seen as a victory over the regime that might done remains intact with that right sector

standing firm some of its members may leave independence square soon though possibly landing jumps in the revamp into real ministry one parliament forms a unity government on thursday looks you worship fortune from kiev ukraine. now let's get some analysis from going forward in the u.k. he's a former member of the european parliament and can talk live to us thanks so much mr four for joining us here on a national discuss the situation and ukraine well as we know you were chair of the european parliament committee of inquiry into the growth of racism in europe what we see happening in ukraine right now is. on the rise so why is it that europeans are turning a blind eye to that. well i mean we are obviously concerned about the rise to the the radical right in the ukraine. it's very complicated we have to be very careful but i have to say that the european union generally is not

a rather poor track record in terms of if you want funding opposition groups as we've seen in. iraq in libya syria so i think we need to be doubly careful in the case of the ukraine some of what's happening we are in support but clearly what we're not in favor of is seeing a divide due to polarize ukraine between if you will east and west the north and south well you know looking at the situation in ukraine right now of course it is highly volatile we've seen luxembourg react. acting to the rising extremism there or do you think other european countries will follow suit. well i hope so i mean clearly we have to look very carefully at this government of national unity we should be bringing trying to bring people together some hard and difficult decisions have to be made to incorporate people from all parts of ukraine in the new government if it's a sectarian government of of those that in quotation marks won the recent conflict then this is just

a recipe for for further problems in the future and with the continued to merchants of the far right well if the extremist are not reindeer and what potential dangers are there for the country. well there's a number of dangers one of which is that of course the separation mean clearly if if you don't include everybody then the temptation to argue that you're better off alone. together secondly i mean i don't think there's very much money is going to be coming into the ukraine from from from russia the european union is expected to pick up the top it's not going to pick up so going to pick up the bill and it less it's very clear hopefully it won't that we're actually seeing a democratic regime that is inclusive rather than next to save or i just want to make a reminder to our viewers just joining us that while talking to you we're also showing some live pictures coming out of ukraine well now let's carry on to discuss the

situation and political landscape right now in the country we know the interim leadership is finalizing the list of cabinet ministers which they say will have to be approved by the crowds on independence square what do you make of this i mean is that going to be a the norm of law now. while i'm hopefully not for me in the way we're based decisions actually to the democratic process at the ballot box on the parliament and not by if you won't get. the approval of any particular however large demonstration in it in the square in the capital city. can we expect some sort of reaction to that from the e.u. . well i think it i think more important than the if you will the process is the product i think you will be looking very carefully at who is comprising this government of national unity and whether it is a government of unity or government to division. and now let's talk about the

security situation in the country given that the new leadership have disbanded the special police units that were defending the government earlier so what can you say about the situation there i mean how stable or unstable has it become after this. well i mean it's not something that i personally would have recommended. nevertheless i think the the proof of the pudding is in the eating if we see a more more stable environment that's good if it leads to instability that was a mistake our going forward former member of the european parliament think of so much for sharing your views with us here on our international. and of course we are continuing to follow the situation in ukraine which is highly volatile and this is our developing story here and it's international we'll be bringing you pictures a live pictures coming out of the country where crowds are facing off southern ukraine and these are in fact as i just mentioned live pictures from sin for aapl

which is the capital of crimea where crowds are demonstrating against the interim government in the capital kiev of branding it illegitimate well over tester's are calling on local officials to hold a referendum on greater autonomy for the region and stronger ties with russia meanwhile the same time rival protesters supporting the new leadership and chanting crane is not russia and are trying to blog the local parliament and do real it's session several scuffles have broken out with one person reported killed and several nor injured while here in r.t.r. national we continue to follow all the latest in the city and we'll be bringing you more as we get is to do stay with us for this and more. now with a u.k. government struggling to contain the rise of islamophobia at home some britons are

not making the job any easier a group of activists has started patrolling the streets of east london in armored vehicles claiming they want to protect people from being harassed by radical muslims but some locals fear the campaign is only knighting tensions as our first now reports would be not to be so obvious rather the big guns get out the good ship it's only when there's any patrolling town also in the hills of the small but may toy with muslim patrols a new political group calling themselves britain first have responded by filming what they've dubbed christie and patrols and this patrol comes complete with the vehicle for the bullet proof the whole thing is all a play but he joins the. they took to the streets in east london where we had in full heading down to watch the road why the area particularly because that's where a lot. of. what you call the home was made from the group has been described as far right many of the members a form of b.m.p. or e.t.l.

but there we get to differentiate themselves from these groups and insist they don't want to be associated with violence pick tactics such as baiting when members stand with big cans to try and lure out the muslim patrols have proven controversial and some members of the creep had already faced the rest will he'll join the. problems for anyone in the fall and muslim extremists who are carrying out the sure drug dealing are tricky to confront them do you think the christian patrols intimidating. though about this point having a purely condemned the muslim patrols at the time the east london mosque has been singled out by the christian patrol for criticism the mosques say they feel caught in the middle and are worried the patrol could inflame fragile community relations

our community certainly feels threatened by his antics turning up to any part of the country. is. certainly putting across the states. a strong message what the public needs to understand is that none of these groups represent the mainstream community or wider society out on london streets and well there's not much support to be found here either person to control the border you shouldn't have a sense of love i'm sorry. i don't think might be any. yeah below is the yeah right here. do you think it's all going to be completely peaceful here there are going to be moments where. i think there's a potential for trouble there always will be there's nothing we can do to avoid that you could not patrol. members of the public.

to somebody but that's not what we've been told since a number of arrests last year the muslim patrols have gone to ground it's unclear if their patrols are actually still operating that will likely come as some relief to policing community relations workers in this diverse area of london that despite the christian patrol activity the muslim patrols of safe are not taken the bait. the london and i'll bring you more news after the short break here and here national so do stay with us. revolutionary care of with the illegal overthrow of the democratically elected government in ukraine the country stands at the abyss politically economically and even territorially strongly supported by the e.u.

and washington the new rulers of my don't perceive as ideological zealots can they reach out to all ukrainians or will they divide the country even more. gridlock for a tour to mccurry was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tunes mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care only. choose your language. we can with. some. choose the consensus to. choose the opinions that you. choose the stories that impact your life choose access to.

now welcome back you're watching martina national live from moscow the european parliament has slammed the work of international landers and abetted to multiple flaws in the eurozone bailout program its report of myths that financial institutions have failed in their key goal of protecting eurozone members from collapse the so-called troika of landers is also accused of failing to consult national governments and merely giving them ultimatums moreover the report says the troika lacks accountability and transparency and applies a blanket approach to all crisis hit countries are just bitter all over reports of the growing discontent with the system their hands on the purse strings of europe's cash strapped. that confidence in the euro zone's three biggest lenders known as the troika is wavering in terms of public debt in terms of potential rolph in terms

of unemployment there is. worse now than before the troika intervention in the country by greece made up of the international monetary fund the e.u. and the european central bank the idea behind the troika was to get the most indebted eurozone nations back on an even keel through bailouts and at times crippling austerity measures island became the first to leave the bailout program at the end of last year not before cutting thirty billion euro from the budget seeing salary squeeze by twenty percent in southern europe the hopes of a light at the end of the tunnel anti especially for the generation growing up in detroit unemployment is not peculiar to four so we are going to be facing a. a large number of young people i mean in countries like greece or spain youth unemployment is over fifty percent and these people have little prospect of getting a job and achieving some sort of economic security this is seen european lawmakers

call into question the ability of the troika to deal with the scale of the crisis and to attack its methods the troika acts like a acts like a governor. and visits its colonies in the south though here event tells you what to do the measures they come up with are not they're not always very effective the credibility of its economic forecast has caused most unease to keep concerning greece which is received two hundred forty billion euros in loans so far in twenty eleven the troika predicted economic growth in greece of one percent however the reality was a seven percent shrink just a one off you might think then in twenty twelve they predicted two percent growth which ended up as a further four percent downturn those running for election to the european parliament this year say that the current systems in place for trying to deal with the crippling debts in some parts of the eurozone just aren't working and that

a new solution other than the troika will have to be found in the next parliament with some accusing the troika of trying to cover up its mistakes but there is quite a bit of propaganda going on right now trying to make people believe that there is an improvement in those southern european countries in fact there's no improvement that i can see because the debt situation is verse than ever the banking crisis is still not resolved peter all over germany and also in germany and your report from the council of europe's anti-racism watchdog says the country is not doing enough to stamp out the communalisation and homophobia it's urged the authorities to take a firmer stance on hate speech are often have has the details. germany has done a good job of luring young people away from the neo nazi sea and the report also praises the country for a program that lets people applying for jobs anonymously in order to make sure that no one's discriminated for or age or origin but when it comes to battling

homophobia and racism the report says that germany simply has a lot more work to do one of the things that are recommends is tougher penalties for crimes against sexual religious or ethnic minorities as well as an overhaul of the way in which germany registers these kinds of incidents because right now there simply is a lack of confidence among victims in the german investigation process as a result many victims of racist or homophobic assaults simply don't report them to the authorities that's a major problem the council of europe also took issue with germany's penal code like the legal system here basically in many european union countries racial motivation for one example is considered as a factor in a crime one passing a sentence while not here in germany over here racial incitement as well as hate speech is only punishable once someone is found to have disturbed at the peace something which is really quite difficult to prove in a court of law now the council of europe issues these types of reports every five years the recommendations aren't binding and of course it's up to the individual

countries to decide what if anything to do about it but the authors of the report do say that intolerance is something they see as growing all across europe not just here in germany i am moving on now to venezuela as a country continues to be plagued by a nationwide street protest the u.s. has expelled three of its diplomats and this comes after president durant ordered three american diplomats to leave his country accusing them of inciting the rest at least fifteen people have been killed in rioting that started two weeks ago with demonstrators demanding that madeira resign over high levels of crime and a stagnant economy but some back spurred believe the roots of the far beyond the country's borders. the united states has opposed. charges for a very long time and so has the conservative government in colombia both governments have various ways whether it is by the. paramilitaries going to going to sleep from colombia or also the u.s.

government supporting opposition groups with funding and with this public statements that for example kerry recently gave secretary of state kerry which essentially gave. the opposition a shot and you are because he. made it there are protests even though it's quite clear that most of the protests are. are being broken into and are seeking comment protections with at least. now as for what's happening in ukraine in fact this is our developing story here on c.n.n. national rival crowds there are facing off southern ukraine and. now we're showing you some latest pictures from sin for all ball is the capital of crimea as you can see crowds are demonstrating against the interim government in the capital kiev branding it illegitimate well they are calling on the local officials to hold a referendum on greater autonomy for their region and stronger ties with russia and while rival protests are supporting the new leadership are chanting ukraine is not

russia and are trying to block the local parliament and derail its session several scuffles have already broken out with one person reported killed and several more injured well here in our theater national we are closely following the developments in the country so do stay across what's happening there through our web page r.t. dot com also. facebook and twitter as we'll bring you the very latest as we get it here into the national. now you might think it's deja vu and you're probably right however the torches have turned blue this time and the people carrying them have to work even harder to bring the flame to sochi and their predecessors the paralympic torch relay has begun in style there are reports. well the only have we can have to get to the torch from the far as far as the far east

of russia to where the paralympic games are going to take place and that of course is in start cheap and they will have to cover the length and breadth of the entire country forty five cities more than fifteen hundred people are going to be involved and still we're going to be we're going to be seeing rather impressive displays off emotional physical and of course human insurance when we're going to be looking at people with disabilities perform in some of the most amazing sports in sochi but because they have such a short period of time to do this the organizers decided that torch release will be happening soon we'll tenuously in several cities at the same time so so on the wednesday it was the far eastern cities that have started with the relay and by the end of next week we're going to be seeing the paralympic torch lit up in sochi russia actually has traditionally performed rather well and paralympics in fact they came in second during the vancouver winter games and of course they are hoping

that the russian athletes and paralympics will be able to perform that feat during the paralympic games in sochi as well or english the reporting there well and as you've just heard from her team russia is no stranger to winter paralympic glory eight years ago entering the top of the overall tally with thirteen golds down last time in vancouver russia was just one gold medal short of finishing first and now with a home turf advantage there's no doubt they'll be giving it everything they've got in their chase for victory. well i have for you here in r t international more on the situation in crisis torn ukraine in peter lavelle's crosstalk and for viewers in the u.k. it's our report on gun possession in america and my first rifle don't go away.

transit route to vnukovo report your best way to the heart of mosco. bridge the gun the help to buy scheme for real estate which is a copycat of the fannie mae and freddie mac. debacle which caused the sub prime crisis two thousand and seven the british energy corporations are going to take fracking even though in america it's been proven to be completely an economical and environmental disaster but they're going to do it here anyone because why nobody in the media here except for maybe george monbiot over there to guard him will say anything about the fact that this is an ecological disaster and more importantly an economic blue dog all that will increase britain's

debt to even higher than it is right now the highest it's been a decade. well told you my language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports for so i'm likely to push the no i will leave them to state department comment on your latter point of the month to say to mr kerry you have a car is on a dog you know god. thank you no more weasel words. when you veda direct question be prepared for a change when you throw a punch be ready for a battle freedom of speech and a little down to freedom to question.

hello and welcome to cross talk or of things were considered i'm peter lavelle revolutionary care of with the illegal overthrow of the democratically elected government in ukraine the country stands at the abyss politically economically and even territorially strongly supported by the e.u. and washington the new rulers of my dawn are seen as ideological zealots can they reach out to all ukrainians or will we divide the country even more. to cross talk of events in ukraine i'm joined by my guest amanda paul in brussels she is a policy analyst at the european policy center we also have alexander be curious in london he is a legal writer and analyst and in moscow we cross to dimitri he's a political analyst with the voice of russia radio station or across talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it

alexander if i can go to you first in london where the government was supposed to be formed today and they're postponing it is this. a indication of what's going to come where we don't have unity even here we have never had unity amongst the opposition leaders and that's been a serious problem they have never been able to agree which of them leads the opposition movement and to make matters worse we now know the two of the most important opposition leaders mrs team a shameful and mystically chuckle have ruled have ruled themselves out ok i'd like to turn to our against amanda in brussels how do you see things playing out in kiev right now because we've seen is that the opposition is having a very hard time finding some kind of unity how in the world if they can find unity during a crisis situation that we have right now how can they reach out to the east that is watching this with a very wary eye well i would agree that his style.